Bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages or phages) have a complex relationship that is in
constant flux. Studies in natural environments, and by manipulations of phages and bacteria …

Viruses of bacteria (bacteriophages or phage) have broad effects on bacterial ecology and
evolution in nature that mediate microbial interactions, shape bacterial diversity, and …

Bacteriophages (phages) are the viruses of bacteria. The impact of phages on bacterial
pathogenesis may be divided into two major themes, transduction and predation. In this …

Highlights•Multiomic approaches have increased our understanding of phage diversity in
nature.•Lab studies reveal novel biology within phage-host interactions.•The challenge …

This monograph emphasizes the many facets of bacterial evolution as impacted by bacterial
interactions with phages, as well as, to a lesser degree, the evolutionary impact of phages …

Bacteriophages (phages) are the viruses of bacteria and the study of phage biology can be
differentiated, roughly, into molecular, environmental, evolutionary, ecological, and applied …

Studying the coevolutionary dynamics between bacteria and the bacteriophage viruses that
infect them is critical to understanding both microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning …

Evolutionary biology and microbiology, with the ushering in of the molecular revolution,
developed a tenuous relationship (Woese, 1994). Further isolating these disciplines, once …

Bacteriophages (phages) evolve rapidly by acquiring genes from other phages. This results
in mosaic genomes. Here, we identify numerous genetic transfers between distantly related …

Ecology is the study of the interactions between organisms and their environments. Within
our planet's varied environments there exist 1030 or more individual bacteria (Whitman et …